here's jonah goldberg. he is a syndicated columnist and author of "liberal fascism." joan na, i want to start with you first. does it sound eerily similar at all, you know, to what we did in world war ii? >> i think you have it basically right. the issue here is the same one as we had back then. it's the arrogance of economic planners. they think if they just get enough data and turn all the diodes the right way and get all the right memos an forms, they will be smarter than markets and know how to allocate resources better than markets do. the problem is what is that fairy tale, the little old lady who swallowed a fly? every time, it just creates another problem and you get the snowball effect. with the cash for clunkers thing, we are now telling people that, first of all, maybe some of these people don't need is a new car. they really need a new refrigerator but they got such a good deal, that the government knows better, that they need a new karaer this than an refrigerator, so we're incentivizing people to do this. at the same time, all we're doing is robbing dema